Install Google Chrome OS Diet From USB Stick

You must have heard of the recent release of Google Chromium OS. It is basically an open source operating system with some attractive virtues like speed, simplicity, security and very low space consuming. The original Chromium OS edition requires 4GB storage space. But in case you are running out of space just check out new Google Chrome OS Diet USB version. Hexxeh, a web developer and programmer from UK, modified the previous version and now it can be installed from a 1GB USB drive. Isn’t it sounds great that the whole facilities of Google Chrome OS is available through only a 1GB USB drive?

What is difference between Google Chromium OS and Chrome OS Diet?

1. It is lighter than the previous version. So you can install this from a storage device just of size 1 GB.
2. It supports more hardware than the Chrome OS does. You can see that immediate after booting the Chrome OS, it will require a Google account and password to login. Yes, you’ve guessed correct. It requires an internet connection to login. But the previous version, Chromium OS some time fails to adjust with some Network adapters.

You can download Google Chrome OS Diet Version. You’ll see the downloaded file is a RAR file of 298 MB. After extracting this RAR file the size will be 972MB. Therefore you can easily install Google Chrome OS in your machine by a 1GB USB drive.

Procedure for Installing Google Chrome OS Diet Version

Firstly, download Chrome OS Diet.

Extract the downloaded file using WinRar. After extracting you will get a IMG file. IMG files are so likely for USB as ISO files for CD. This IMG file of 972MB is to be loaded on a 1GB pen drive. For Windows you can make a USB drive bootable using Win32 Disk Imager. After downloading, save it in the same location where you’ve extracted the Chrome OS Diet RAR file. Launch Win32DiskImager.exe. You may get an error message but don’t panic. The message is displaying because it is searching for a floppy drive which is not there. Locate the image file in the Win32 Disk Imager window. Now choose the drive letter of your USB drive from the drop down menu at the right side. Click on “Write” button.

Now you’re done. Just plug the USB drive into your machine and reboot it. Before rebooting don’t forget to change the boot order. You can change the boot order from the BIO settings. Immediate after reboot of your machine from the USB drive the Chromium OS will boot automatically.

Google Chrome OS reboots almost in no time. As soon you start it, you will be asked to login with your Gmail account.

After signing in, Google Chrome browser is opened automatically. In this operating system you have to be logged in all the time with your Google account to enjoy the incredibility of Chromium OS.

As Google is yet to officially release Google Chrome OS, it is in the market as a source code or open source OS and under development. Keep in touch with TTG to stay updated about any news related to Chromium OS.